Carpet-fastener



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS DEWEY AND IRA PHILLIPS, OF CLARENDON, NEW YORK.

CARPET-FASTENER.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 21,325, dated August 3-1, 1858.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, MORRIS DEWEY and IRA` PHILLIPS, of Clarendon, in the county of Orleans and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Carpet-F astener, Together with a New and Convenient Instrument for the Purpose of Setting the Fastener in the Floor; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and eX- act description of the said invention.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction of a pin about an inch in length of proper size, pointed at both ends, o r pointed at one end and flattened at the other, as seen in the accompanying drawing at Figure 1, letter A, made from brass, iron or any other metal suitable for the purpose herein set forth, which pin is set in the floor as at B, Fig. 2, of sufficient depth to insure permanency and leave above the floor enough of the said brass, iron or other metallic pin to form a hook as at H, Fig. 4, on which the carpet is fastened. The pin as above describedis set in the floor at any desired distance from the margin of the room or the angle formed by the base and floor by the use of an instrument as at C, Fig. 3 in the drawing, denominated a set,

is provided near the outer end in the under surface with a hole as at D, Fig. 3, tting the upper point of the pin into which it is inserted as at E, Fig. 2, when the lower point of the pin is put upon the floor in the proper place and forced into the floor by the use of a hammer or other instrument onthe outer end of the set directly above the pin, the length of pin left above the ioor for the hooks gaged by the depth of the hole in the set. After having set the pin in the Hoor as' June 8th, 1858.

MORRIS DEWEY. IRA PIIILLIPS. Witnesses:

D. F. L. JOHN, JOHN CHURCH. 

